Taxonomy Switcher
Active Installs
2,000+
Last Updated
January 9, 2026
First Released
February 2, 2014
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Contributors
This plugin allows you to select your “From”, and “To” Taxonomies, to convert all terms. Optionally select a parent term to limit terms to switch. Typing term names will do a live search of terms with the name you are typing AND possess child terms.
Plugin also has built-in support for WP-CLI. In the command line, type in wp taxonomy-switcher for instructions.
Plugin is on GitHub. Pull Requests and Forks welcome.
Notes
Please keep in mind, if parent isn’t set, or you don’t specify a comma-separated list of term ids to migrate, it will migrate all terms for that taxonomy to the new taxonomy.
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- Backup!
- Upload ‘taxonomy-switcher’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Navigate to the ‘Taxonomy Switcher’ admin page. You’ll find the menu item under the ‘Tools’ menu item on the left.
- Select your “From”, and “To” Taxonomies.
- a) Optionally select a parent term to limit terms to switch. Typing term names will do a live search of terms with the name you are typing AND possess child terms. OR b) Add a comma-separated list of term ids to switch.
- Switch them!
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Changelog
1.1.0
- Updated: Confirmed 6.9 compatibility.
- Updated: Converted away from jQuery.
- Updated: Disable “parent” selector field if “from” taxonomy is not hierarchical.
- Updated: Limit taxonomy lists to public only.
1.0.8
- Updated: Confirmed WP 6.8 compatibility.
- Updated: Misc little code cleanups that should not affect anyone.
1.0.7
- Updated: Confirmed WP 6.5 compatibility.
1.0.6
- Updated: Confirmed WP 6.4 compatibility.
- Updated: Moved capability back to manage_options to sync with options page.
- Updated: Clear caches after conversion.
- Fixed: PHP8 deprecation notices.
1.0.5
- Updated: Confirmed WP 6.2.1 compatibility.
1.0.4
- Updated: changed required capability to manage_categories
1.0.3
- Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 5.4.0
1.0.2
- Update for xss vulnerability, https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2015/04/20/fixing-add_query_arg-and-remove_query_arg-usage
1.0.1
- Add ability to switch comma-separated list of term IDs.
1.0.0
- Release
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